The French Dispatch
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (known simply as The French Dispatch) is an upcoming American comedy-drama film written and directed by Wes Anderson, based upon a story written by Anderson, Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness, and Jason Schwartzman. The film will focus on the French foreign bureau of a fictional Kansas newspaper.
Plot
The film has been described as "a love letter to journalists set at an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city", centering on three storylines. It brings to life a collection of tales published in the eponymous The French Dispatch, based in the fictional French city of Ennui-sur-Blasé. The film is inspired by Anderson's love of The New Yorker, and some characters and events in the film are based on real-life equivalents from the magazine. One of the three storylines centers on the May 68 student occupation protests, inspired by Mavis Gallant's two-part article "The Events in May: A Paris Notebook". Another storyline, featuring Adrien Brody's character of Julien Cadazio, is based on "The Days of Duveen", a six-part feature in The New Yorker on art dealer Lord Duveen.
More details
| author | Wes Anderson |
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| contentLocation | Paris |
| director | Wes Anderson |
| editor | Andrew Weisblum |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | american journalist art dealer freedom of the press love letter mavis gallant may 68 new yorker real world speak the new yorker |
| musicBy | Alexandre Desplat |
| producer | Jeremy Dawson Steven Rales Wes Anderson |
| publisher | Searchlight Pictures |